No Stupid Questions

I know it already is but should it be?

It seems like a lot of european countries have started becoming more concerned with digital sovereignty and some have begun enforcing using open formats like ODF / ODS

I'm struggling to find support though. A lot of software seems to open ODS files but force the XLSX format on save.

I'd expect something like OnlyOffice to have support since it's used by the French government and the government of their German neighbours is enforcing ODS usage + there should be a reasonable library they could import to make it work without a large overhead

I think starting to understand how a girl behaves who she has a thing for you.

There was this girl at the office who is our team.

I was not observing a lot but she was siiting beside me most of the time at cafeteria when we eat. It just didn't resgister on my mind.

So the other day, I was eating and there no adjacent seats so she dediced to sit opposite to me. But before her, her friend came early and placed her plate in the opposite. This girl, later came and pushed her friend's plate awkwardly away and sat opposite of me.

Am I reading too much into this? Or is my assumption valid?

One thing I hate about guys that complain about Mary sues is that they never complain about “Gary Stus.” For example, Light Yagami was kind of a Gary Stu. He had an IQ of 215–230, he was handsome, the most popular kid in his school, and his family was upper middle class. Jace Wayland from Shadowhunters is an arrogant, brooding bad boy who’s a master martial artist, who women fawn over, and is basically the fantasy of what men and women think a cool bad boy is. Tony Stark is a multi-billionaire with multiple armored, superpowered suits that basically make him Superman, and Superman himself is basically a god.

Are these characters bad? No. I love all of them, but let’s be real here… they could be considered male Mary Sues, and these guys never bring that up.

Now, not every character or show has to be relatable. Peter Parker works because he’s an everyman; however, the opposite can also be true, and people like fantasy escapism. That’s why soap operas about wealthy people or sitcoms about financially stable families are popular, because it’s a form of escapism this goes for Mary Sues and Gary Stus too.

Let’s take a real guy who’s a real ‘bad boy.’ He’s muscular, wears ‘bad boy fashion,’ drives a sports car and a motorcycle, is arrogant, sarcastic, and an asshole to his friends, family, and kids, and very clearly doesn’t love or even like his friends or girlfriend. Is it true he’s more likable than a ‘nice guy’?

I can go to any country, with the caveat that my mom would accompany me for part of it. I don’t want to go someplace I’ve already been, so it can’t be Taiwan, Canada, France, Germany, Morocco, Japan, Mexico, Ireland, or Argentina. I’m from the US and don’t want to go to a state I’ve already been to either. I want somewhere that feels very different.

The reason that this is a hard decision is because my mom is up there in age and can’t swim. I would really like to beach and party at least some of the time, but I don’t want to do that with her because we’re not the type to drink and do drugs in front of each other. The idea is that it would be 2 weeks for me and 1 for her, so we would start off together and then I’d be let loose and she’d fly home. When she is there we would do shorter hikes, visit museums, shop, and do normal tourist things. When she is gone I want to party and swim, so I need a place that is rich in both culture and unzh unzh.

The other issue is that it has to be June, and some places we would both be really interested in like Thailand and Vietnam would be too hot for me. Or would they? Idk, that’s why I’m asking.

I would love to visit any country tbh but some would be less fun with my mom. Like in Kazakhstan I’d want to ride horses and sleep in yurts and it’ll just be different with her since she can’t do those things, so I will save that for solo travel. This also may be the last trip we take together so I want to make her happy. I bet the best option is Thailand in winter but June is when I won’t be employed.

My thoughts: Costa Rica–plenty to see and do with her, warm oceans for me after, many activities, but we only speak French, Chinese, Taiwanese, and English.

Cuba–same as above but could be difficult for US citizens?

Puerto Rico–I know it’s part of the US but I haven’t been and my only concern is the stability

Turkey–I was a history major with a focus on the Ottoman Empire so historical site would be fascinating to me, and I love cats, and there would be a lot of things I’d love to see while she’s there and plenty of beaches for me.

South Korea–her idea. I think if we go there not speaking Korean we might struggle to have a good time without a strong itinerary. I want to go to Korea with a person who speaks Korean and can show me more authentic things so I don’t just feel like I’m walking around looking at skyscrapers without a good itinerary. I’d also want to save up for some plastic surgery before going, lol.

New Zealand–only con is a long flight for a trip that will be on the short side for her if she’s only going for a week.

Scotland–I bet we’d both love it but it seems a bit quiet and more the kind of trip I’ve want to take with a lover.

Portugal, Croatia, etc…

To be clear I’m not trying to say that any of these countries would be bad to go to, just that they may not be ideal for a half-family half-solo trip. Other places I want to visit, like Iceland and Alaska, won’t offer the kind of swimming I want to do.

I’d also like to get a bit slutty on the back half. Like it’s actually really important to me that I get to make out with random strangers and do something stupid and stumble home

No, seriously. A lot of the time after I use one, it results in some kind of mess with varying degrees of subtlety. It's been mildly irritating for years and I'm starting to feel like I'm missing something obvious.

Are you supposed to aim toward the center? To one side? High? Low? Into the drain/water?

I've tried aiming near the side so that the stream hits the urinal quietly and has a low angle of deflection, thinking it'll minimize splash back. But sometimes it seems like there are tiny droplets in a radius around the stream and some flecks will get onto the outside of the urinal, which is no good.

I've tried aiming at the deepest part in the back of the urinal, hoping that the intense splashing from hitting it at close to a 90-degree angle will be counterbalanced by the greatest amount of surrounding urinal surface in the vicinity, but this is too optimistic and tends to deposit a fine mist on the floor between me and my target.

I've tried aiming downwards at the drain, or when it's the style of urinal with a standing water level, at the back half of the water where it's shallow. This is loudest and probably provokes silent judgment from anyone else unfortunate enough to be using the bathroom at the same time as me, but it doesn't seem to be especially good at minimizing mess and in the case of standing water, has a low chance of splashing an actually threatening amount of liquid back in my direction.

Perhaps it's just inevitable that this particular plumbing fixture comes with a little mess involved. In other areas of life we are fine with periodically cleaning in our Sisyphean struggles against the various avenues where dirt and grime accumulate. But I want to be a conscientious user of shared facilities, damn it. And there's only so many times a guy can discreetly wipe off his shoe with a paper towel before going insane.

Please help.

Especially in the last year with Trump taking office I have the feeling that all the declassifying by he government and a rise in so called documentaries like that of Jeremy Corbell are nothing else than a distraction from a more serious subject or incident.

Come to think of it maybe it has always been like that. Governments around the world found out that people were fascinated with UFOs and used this to there advantage. The whole UFO scene probably started with a trick of the eye or an optical illusion. And Alien abductions probably started with abusing of drugs and alcohol or being exposed to dangerous fumes. Hell the need for attention and money is reason enough.

I really would love to believe Bob Lazar and he seems a genuine guy but spilling secrets like he did, people have been killed for less.

Is this me just having an edgy take or do you feel the same way? By the way I still hope there is something out there.

What do you think being famous/ a celebrity is actually like?

Assuming he/she/they don’t get obsessed and there are no drawbacks, would you?

Do you do it for clout? To vent? To feel better? To inform others? Or is it something else entirely?

It's not a childhood trauma thing. I had a decent upbringing. I've been like this all my life. I'll talk about people using their name to others when the named person isn't around, but I avoid using their name as a vocative to their face.

Same thing with people using my name. I don't mind people summoning me by calling my name, but I cringe when people use my name as a vocative in front of me. I also get irritated when people I don't know and have no intention of establishing a relationship with use my name.

I worked in a call center and we had the usual opening "thank you for calling _____ my name is early_riser, how can I help you?" I assumed the unspoken rule was that I'm giving my name so the client can later refer to me in complaints or commendations, not because I want to establish anything more than a client-employee relationship. Also, I always use "sir" or "ma'am" when addressing clients, and hope they reciprocate that respect.

Edit:

Yes I know what names are for. Also “angry” was too strong a word. I don’t lash out at people when they do this. I understand that people are trying to be friendly when they use my name and that the irritation is unwarranted, but it’s there and I want to know why.

Is there any reason the water can't be safely consumed later? It's not toxic or nuclear is it? The cooling water didn't just up and disappear did it?

Edit: Links provided in the comments...

• https://arxiv.org/pdf/2304.03271
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_c6MWk7PQc
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_c6MWk7PQc&t=1264
• https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/03/06/how-much-water-do-the-data-centres-use-its-a-secret/
• https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2025EcInd.17012986J/abstract
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tallest_cooling_towers
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niederaussem_Power_Station

Notable comments:

• https://lemmy.world/comment/23672269
• https://sh.itjust.works/comment/25288634
• https://lemmy.cafe/comment/16350045
• https://sh.itjust.works/comment/25294655

Edit addendum: I'd like to thank everyone that's participated in this question thread, sorry if I missed any good relevant links in the comments.

To be clear, I still loathe the whole AI datacenter era, it really is heavily wasteful of resources, notably energy, but I wanted to better understand the water usage situation.

Assuming of course the stepparent gives them a trust fund or something.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/46761610

Like when you set it to English in ya profile Settings you get this error message: "Warning: If you deselect Undetermined, you will not see most content.".

When you post, when you make communities, that setting is everywhere and it's just confusing the hell outta me and I'm scared to select English anywhere tbh

When I had it on English, I couldn’t even see any replies and comments at all anymore. Took me like a week to figure out why! 😱

Left this post on “Select language”, but when I added these last 2 sentences with the “Edit” option, without changing anything about the language, it gave me this error “Language not allowed” and I had to switch it to “English”.

After changing the language to "English" I was unable to see it from the 2 crossposts or the profile page. Like you can only see the crossposts from the original post, but the original post is not visible from the crossposts ;)

Had to press the "X"-button next to "Undetermined" to make comments and the "English" post appear again.

I don’t care about Gaza, Palestine, or the people there. I’m not one of those people who denies there’s a genocide — I do believe there is one. I just don’t give a fuck. I truly don’t. I don’t care if Israel bombs all of Gaza and kills kids. I don’t. I don’t give a fuck. Here are my actual thoughts: “Fuck them and fuck those kids.” I don’t give a fuck. They could drop a missile so radioactive it gives kids brain cancer, and I still wouldn’t care. I’m aware this is a hot take, and I have seen pictures of dead kids in Gaza, and I still don’t give a fuck. Here’s how I think when I see those pictures: “Fuck them.” That’s it.

But in public, on social media, etc., should I act like I care? I mean, just to make myself look good?

Hypothetically, there is a new superhero show coming out, and the trailer song for it is Romantic Homicide by d4vd. The reason is because the character’s love interest died in the origin story. How in bad taste would this be?

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